Florida’s First Lady Ann Scott is back. This morning she is visiting Florida Atlantic University, but the students she’s here to see are all well under voting age… they are the students at the A.D. Henderson laboratory school.

The school runs from kindergarten to eighth grade on the university’s Boca Raton campus. A lab school is a public school but not part of the Palm Beach County School District.

With a fairly quiet week in K-12 schools, both public and private, in Palm Beach County, this week’s Education Talkback question is going back and looking at a trend in higher education first reported in April.

Florida colleges and universities that educate the teachers going into public and private school classrooms around the state ranked poorly in an annual report from the National Council on Teacher Quality that blasted how teachers are prepared for their jobs nationwide.

“Teacher prep in the U.S. is a major concern,” said Kate Walsh, president of the council, a group that advocates for reform in policies governing teachers nationwide.

For residents and online commenters who frequently question where all the billions in property taxes, state funding and grant collected by the Palm Beach County School District goes, Wednesday’s school board meeting could shed some light.

The consent agenda contains more than three dozen new or renewed contracts worth more than $106 million for the school board’s approval.

Wednesday’s meeting is the last before the end of the school district’s budget year …

It’s difficult enough for most people to get through the day without a computer or a smart phone, let alone create an entire 16-page newspaper without these conveniences.

But that’s what Florida Atlantic University students at the University Press did. Last week, they released an entire issue that was put together with typewriters, darkrooms, and X-acto knives – no computers. They edited stories in pencil, and …